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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW COMPENDIUM VOLUME II

(a)

The

territories

in respect of which the Member

concerned

undertakes

that

the

provisions

of

the

Convention shall be applied without modification;

(b) The territories in respect of which it undertakes that

the provisions of the Convention shall be applied subject

to

modifications,

together

with

details

of

the

said

modifications;

(c) The territories in respect of which the Convention is

inapplicable and in such cases the grounds on which it is

inapplicable;

(d) The territories in respect of which it reserves its

decisions pending further consideration of the position.

2. The undertakings referred to in subparagraphs (a) and

(b) of paragraph 1 of this article shall be deemed to be an

integral part of the ratification and shall have the force of

ratification.

3. Any member may at any time by a subsequent

declaration cancel in whole or in part any reservation

made

in

its

original

declaration

by

virtue

of

subparagraphs (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1 of this article.

4. Any Member may, at any time at which the Convention

is

subject

to

denunciation

in

accordance

with

the

provisions

of

article

9,

communicate

to

the

Director-General a declaration modifying in any other

respect the terms of any former declaration and stating

the present position in respect of such territories as it may

specify.

ARTICLE 8

1. Declarations communicated to the Director-General of

the

International

Labour

Office

in

accordance

with

paragraphs 4 and 5 of article 35 of the Constitution of the

International Labour Organisation shall indicate whether

the provisions of the Convention will be applied in the

territory concerned without modification or subject to

modification; when the declaration indicates that the

provisions of the Convention will be applied subject to

modification, it shall give details of the said modifications.

2.

The

Member,

Members

or

international authority

concerned may at any time by a subsequent declaration

renounce in whole or in part the right to have recourse to

any modification indicated in any former declaration.

3.

The

Member,

Members

or

international authority

concerned may, at any time at which this Convention is

subject to denunciation in accordance with the provisions

of article 9, communicate to the Director-General a

declaration modifying in any other respect the terms of

any former declaration and stating the present position in

respect of the application of the Convention.

ARTICLE 9

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may

denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the

date on which the Convention first comes into force, by

an act communicated to the Director-General of the

International

Labour

Office

for

registration.

Such

denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the

date on which it is registered.

2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and

which does not, within the year following the expiration

of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding

paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for

in this article, will be bound for another period of ten

years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at

the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms

provided for in this article.

ARTICLE 10

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall notify all Members of the International Labour

Organisation

of

the

registration

of

all

ratifications,

declarations and denunciations communicated to him by

the Members of the Organisation.

2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of

the registration of the second ratification communicated

to him, the Director-General shall draw the attention of

the Members of the Organisation to the date upon which

the Convention will come into force.

ARTICLE 11

The Director-General of the International Labour Office

shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United

Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of

the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all

ratifications,

declarations

and

acts

of

denunciation

registered by him in accordance with the provisions of

the preceding articles.

ARTICLE 12

At such times as it may consider necessary, the Governing

Body of the International Labour Office shall present to

the General Conference a report on the working of this

Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing

on the agenda of the Conference the question of its

revision in whole or in part.

ARTICLE 13

1.

Should

the

Conference

adopt

a

new

Convention

revising this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless

the new Convention otherwise provides:

(a) The ratification by a Member of the new revising

Convention

shall

ipso

jure

involve

the

immediate

denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the

provisions of article 9 above, if and when the new revising

Convention shall have come into force;

(b) As from the date when the new revising Convention

comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open

to ratification by the Members.

2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its

actual form and content for those Members which have

ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

ARTICLE 14

The English and French versions of the text of this

Convention are equally authoritative.

The foregoing is the authentic text of the Convention duly

adopted by the General Conference of the International

Labour

Organisation

during

its

thirty-fourth

session

which was held at Geneva and declared closed the

twenty-ninth day of June 1951.

In faith whereof we have appended our signatures this

second day of August 1951.

(Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951, [June 29, 1951])

Forced Labour Convention

May 1, 1932

FORCED LABOUR CONVENTION *

The General Conference of the International Labour

Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body

of the International Labour Office, and having met in its

fourteenth session on 10 June 1930, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals

with regard to forced or compulsory labour, which is

included in the first item on the agenda of the session,

and

Having determined that these proposals shall take the

form of an international Convention,

Adopts this twenty-eighth day of June of the year one

thousand

nine

hundred

and

thirty

the

following

Convention, which may be cited as the Forced Labour

Convention, 1930, for ratification by the Members of the

International Labour Organisation in accordance with the

provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour

Organisation:

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